Responding to the Climate Emergency
NOVENA FOR MELTING ARCTIC
WINTER PEACE - 1981 PRAYER FLAG
WINTER PEACE - 1981 PRAYER FLAG
From novem, or nine in Latin, Novena's 9 candles stand over the melting ice and reference the ancient practice of mourning nine days after the death of a loved one
WINTER PEACE - 1981 PRAYER FLAG
WINTER PEACE - 1981 PRAYER FLAG
WINTER PEACE - 1981 PRAYER FLAG
Watercolors recording extent of multi-year ice at 5 yr intervals are sewn onto canvases formatted as Tibetan Prayer Flags to encourage seeing the climate emergency through a spiritual lens.
Disappearing Arctic Ice Cap
WINTER PEACE - 1981 PRAYER FLAG
Disappearing Arctic Ice Cap
Extent of multi-year arctic ice in summer at three points in time 15 years apart: 1981, 1996 and 2011. 2011 is the tiny white stripe with 2011 in red at the bottom
KIVALINA, ALASKA
ROSIE THE RIVETER
Disappearing Arctic Ice Cap
Kivalina , Alaska will be the First US Town to go Underwater (in 2025) according to the US Army Corp of Engineers
ROSIE THE RIVETER
ROSIE THE RIVETER
ROSIE THE RIVETER
Rosie, who is almost 7 ft tall and can stand on her own, worked in Boston Climate Action Network's campaign to start Boston's municipal aggregation program now called Community Choice Electricity
STAND WITH MARY
ROSIE THE RIVETER
ROSIE THE RIVETER
Mary B was stalwart in resistance to the West Roxbury Lateral Pipeline, an unnecessary high pressure gas pipeline ending across from a granite quarry actively engaged in blasting.